From 1 to 4 August maestro Gergiev will be conducting the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in a programme including Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto and the overture from Rossini’s opera Guillaume Tell in major cities throughout Japan. The performances are taking place as part of the Pacific Music Festival, of which Valery Gergiev is Artistic Director. One of the main aims of the project is to support talented young musicians; the orchestra of the Pacific Music Festival is a youth ensemble of eighty musicians aged between eighteen and twenty-nine who are selected on an annual basis according to the results of additions throughout the world. Over the course of July the young musicians honed the ir skills under the guidance of conductors and musicians of internationally acclaimed symphony orchestras (the Wiener and Berliner Philharmoniker and the Philadelphia and Chicago Orchestras). Now they will have two performances in Sapporo (a gala concert at the Concert Hall Kitara and an open-air concert in the Art Park) and performances in Yokohama and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. In the Rachmaninoff concertoon all four evenings the soloist will be the young Russian pianist Dmitry Masleyev, recipient of the 1st prize and the Gold Medal at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition.
On 5 August maestro Gergiev will be conducting the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra at a concert dedicated to Countess Yoko Nagae Ceschina – a long-standing friend and partner of the Mariinsky Theatre who died in January this year. Valery Gergiev and the Japanese orchestra will be dedicating their performance of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Pathéthique Symphony to her memory.
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